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MSPP-GP.2100
Communication Skills for Policy AnalystsOpen only to students in the MSPP program. Communication Skills for Policy Analysts is a seminar course that simulates a fast-paced public policy environment where different stakeholders require a constant flow of written and oral communication work …Course
PADM-GP.2144
Debt Financing and Management for Public OrganizationsThis course will focus on the issuance and management of debt by state and local governments as well as nonprofit institutions. The course will serve as an overview of how municipal and nonprofit borrowers access the capital markets, primarily through the …Publication
Economic Development Impacts of High-speed RailHigh-speed rail lines have been built and proposed in numerous countries throughout the world. The advantages of such lines are a higher quality of service than competing modes (air, bus, auto, conventional rail), potentially faster point-to-point times …
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Migration Choices of the Boomerang Generation: Does Returning Home Dampen Labor Market Adjustment?This paper documents how the decisions of young adults to return to live with their parents (‘boomerang’) may contribute to low or declining levels of out-migration from weak labor markets. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a locational choice …
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Management and Leadership SpecializationLearn to craft and execute organizational strategies that respond to dynamic challenges and drive meaningful impact. …
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Migration Choices of the Boomerang Generation: Does Returning Home Dampen Labor Market Adjustment? This paper documents a linkage between two empirical trends: the low levels of out-migration from weak labor markets, and the increasing rate at which young adults return to live with their parents (‘boomerang’). Using the American Community Survey, we …
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Why Don't Housing Choice Voucher Recipients Live Near Better Schools? Insights from Experimental and Big Administrative DataHousing choice vouchers provide low-income households with additional income to spend on rental housing in the private market. The assistance vouchers provide is substantial, offering the potential to dramatically expand the neighborhoods—and associated …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Sarbanes Oxley-like Approach to Enterprise Risk Management in Healthcare OrganizationsVisiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), a $900 million certified home healthcare agency, serves more than 100,000 patients annually in New York City and is the largest nonprofit agency of its kind in the nation. Currently, VNSNY is focusing on …
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Student Spotlight: Jacob Olander (MPA-PNP 2026)Jacob Olander (MPA-PNP 2026), communications chair, Wagner Philanthropy Can you share a bit about yourself and tell us why you chose to attend a school of public service? When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, I became …
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Student Spotlight: Lina Dieudonné (MPA-PNP 2025)Lina Dieudonné (MPA-PNP 2025), chair, Wagner Philanthropy Could you share a bit about yourself and tell us what inspired you to attend NYU Wagner? I have been interested in public service from a young age. I was raised in France but my mother is from …
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At forum, mayors depict city government as locus of actionMayors of four US cities say cities such as their own are making inroads against problems that Washington has often fumbled or ignored—from opiates to crime, and from assimilating immigrants to fixing roads, reducing energy consumption, and building back …
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5 takeaways: What Americans want from government reformAs 2021 comes to a close, President Biden can point to some achievements and plenty of obstacles in his bigger government, more services agenda. NYU Wagner Professor Paul Light’s new GovLab analysis suggests that Biden must take action toward government …
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International ApplicantsStudents entering an NYU Wagner master's program are required to hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in the U.S. or an equivalent degree from a foreign country. If you received an undergraduate degree from an institution …
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Data Inventories for the Modern Age? Using Data Science to Open Government DataThis article describes how data science techniques—machine learning and natural language processing—can be used to open the black box of government data. It then describes how an incentive structure can be established—using human–computer interaction …
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L’E’conomie du don et La Philanthropie aux E’tats-Unis et en France: Analyses Compare’eLight, P.C. & Buhler, P., Charhon, F. …
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Carolyn HouCarolyn Hou is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. As an applied anthropologist, she uses ethnographic research and design thinking methodologies to think creatively and …
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Johnny walks to school - does Jane? Examining sex differences in children's active travel to schoolCommunities are traditionally built with one transportation mode and user in mindthe adult automobile driver. Recently, however, there has been an international focus on the trip to school as an opportunity to enhance childrens independent active travel. …
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Six-Part Series Online Explores Need To Reform the Federal Government In an original six-part series for The Brookings Institution that began on Wednesday, September 23, Paul C. Light, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, makes the …
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A Cascade of Failures: Why Government Fails, and How to Stop ItIn this research paper, Paul C. Light writes that the “first step in preventing future failures is to find a reasonable set of past failures that might yield lessons for repair.” To meet this goal, Light asks four key questions about past federal …
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High Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, IncentivesFixing problems in the federal government. In 2003, the National Commission on the Public Service, chaired by Paul Volcker, issued a report detailing problems within the federal government today and recommending changes in its organization, leadership, …
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Does the Racial Composition of the School Environment Influence Children's Body Mass Index?Purpose This study investigates the degree to which the racial composition of the school environment may influence the body mass index (BMI) of children aged 10 to 18 years. This research may be viewed as extending prior work that has found that the …
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Data Inventories for the Modern Age? Using Data Science to Open Government DataThis article describes how data science techniques—machine learning and natural language processing—can be used to open the black box of government data. It then describes how an incentive structure can be established—using human–computer interaction …
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Executive Master of Public Administration Application ChecklistFill out your online application. Entry Term Only offered for the Fall semester. Application Deadline Online applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. Any mailed application material must be postmarked by …